Reversing Scleroderma Reported June 30, 2006 BATON ROUGE, La. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- If a disease threatened your life, but there was a 50-percent chance you would die from the treatment, would you try it? Here's one woman who did. Scleroderma is a disease that causes the skin and organs to harden as if … [Read more...]
Arthritis News
Prolonged breastfeeding helps prevent rheumatoid arthritis
Prolonged breastfeeding helps prevent rheumatoid arthritis Monday, 4-Nov-2004 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an inflammatory disease of the immune system, is between two and four times more likely to strike women than men. Among women, RA is more likely to develop when reproductive hormonal levels are changing, such as in the first few months following a … [Read more...]
Same Treatment, new Approach for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Same Treatment, new Approach for Rheumatoid Arthritis Reported September 5, 2006 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new study reveals there may be a more effective way to deliver drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis, according to researchers from the University of California, San Diego. The study reveals the very same … [Read more...]
Statins for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Statins for Rheumatoid ArthritisReported January 30, 2006 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers from Jichi Medical School in Tochigi, Japan, are studying whether statins could be used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Statins are a class of drugs used mostly to treat high cholesterol. Recently, they have been … [Read more...]
Unlikely Cause of Chronic Pain Discovered
Unlikely Cause of Chronic Pain DiscoveredReported January 31, 2006 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New research from the United Kingdom reveals what causes ongoing spontaneous pain is undamaged nerve fibers -- not those fibers that are injured. It's an unexpected finding, say researchers from the University of … [Read more...]
Heel Test Reveals Osteoporosis Risk
Heel Test Reveals Osteoporosis Risk Reported June 26, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) A simple ultrasound test of the heel might be a good way to predict which women are at highest risk for the bone thinning disease osteoporosis. It could also help determine which women dont have to worry about developing the condition. Swiss researchers tested … [Read more...]
Pain Isnt Just a Symptom of Arthritis
Pain Isnt Just a Symptom of Arthritis Reported October 01, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Pain is often thought to be a debilitating symptom of osteoarthritis. But new research suggests pain is more than a symptom, its a damaging part of the disease itself. According to a new study, pain signals originate in arthritic joints and the … [Read more...]
Total Ankle Replacement
Total Ankle Replacement Reported May 28, 2008 CLEVELAND, Ohio (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- One-point-three million Americans live with rheumatoid arthritis. The pain can be excruciating. Now, there's a brand new implant that can help these people walk pain free. Beverly McFarland has had 10 surgeries because of painful rheumatoid arthritis. Now she's … [Read more...]
Custom Ankle Replacements
Custom Ankle Replacements Reported April 17, 2009 BALTIMORE (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Two million people visit the doctor every year because of pain from ankle arthritis or fractures. For some, ankle fusion was the only option to ease the pain, but it made the ankle stiff. A personalized ankle replacement could be the answer for those who want … [Read more...]
Vitamin E won’t prevent rheumatoid arthritis: study
Vitamin E won't prevent rheumatoid arthritis: studyReported November 20, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taking vitamin E supplements does not reduce a woman's risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an analysis of data from the Women's Health Study indicates. "Despite plausible biologic mechanisms," the present randomized, controlled trial does not show that long-term use of … [Read more...]
Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs can Cause Skin Disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs can Cause Skin Disease Reported April 7, 2005 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A class of drugs called Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (TNF-alpha) blocking agents used to treat rheumatoid arthritis can cause skin problems in a quarter of patients taking the medications, according to a new study. Researchers … [Read more...]
One in six has arthritis, osteoporosis
One in six has arthritis, osteoporosis Reported December 17, 2008 About 3.3 million people have arthritis including more than 2000, mostly female, children. The disease affects more than one third of people aged over 65 and more than half of those aged 85 or over, according to a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. … [Read more...]
Fatigue Fix
Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are debilitating conditions that leave patients exhausted, unable to sleep and severely limit their ability to live normally. Here's one doctor who has a unique approach to help patients get their lives back. Anne Francis enjoys her daily walks with O'Shea. It was something she could not do a year ago. "Life was not worth living," she … [Read more...]
New Help for Rheumatoid Arthritis
There's new hope for people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating chronic inflammatory disease. Researchers published their findings early in an online edition of The Lancet. Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, studied three new drugs to test their efficacy as stand-alone treatments or as combination therapies with existing treatments. The … [Read more...]
Stem Cells Repair Osteoarthritis Damage
Stem Cells Repair Osteoarthritis Damage Reported April 15, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A partially derived stem cell that can be produced in large enough numbers to be a realistic treatment for osteoarthritis has been discovered in adult cartilage by scientists at Cardiff University in Wales, UK. The partially derived cell, also called a … [Read more...]
Celebrex Halted in Clinical Trial
Celebrex Halted in Clinical Trial Reported December 17, 2004 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The National Cancer Institute has stopped the use of the COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex in a clinical trial because of an increased risk for cardiovascular events associated with its use. Researchers were investigating using Celebrex to prevent colon … [Read more...]
Fitness News : Women Fitness>New Help for Fibromyalgia
New Help for Fibromyalgia Reported November 21, 2005 SEATTLE (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- It's a completely new way to treat fibromyalgia and the pain that comes with the condition. And patients on the medication say they can't imagine going through life without it. A few years ago, Jean Fuller wasn't able to enjoy her gardening. "It was real hard to stoop over like this … [Read more...]
Fitness News : Women Fitness> Treat Pain With Sugar
Treat Pain With Sugar Reported October 26, 2005 By Vivian Richardson, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A little sugar can help reduce chronic pain. No, this isn't the sugar you'll find in ice cream or soda pop, but it does have a sweet effect on pain conditions like fibromyalgia. Researchers at the Annapolis Research Center for Effective CFS/Fibromyalgia … [Read more...]
Transplant for Chronic Knee Pain
Transplant for Chronic Knee Pain Reported January 05, 2009 CHICAGO (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Twenty-one-million Americans live with some kind of joint pain that makes everyday jobs excruciating. A joint replacement is an option, but younger people in pain will need two or three over their lifetimes. One doctor found a more permanent solution that … [Read more...]
Arthritis Drug Helps Diabetes
Arthritis Drug Helps Diabetes Reported September 24, 2008 BOSTON (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Doctors have turned back the clock more than 100 years to rediscover a drug that can help the more than 15 million people in the United States with type 2 diabetes. It's one drug that may provide twice the relief. Mary Ann Provost's pain from diabetes and … [Read more...]
Women Fitness : City News
Osteoarthritis pain - Don't just tough it outReported September 06, 2007 (AP) - A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in black women: they are more likely to have tumours that do not respond to the hormone-based treatments that help many others with the disease. The study is the largest yet to link a biological factor to the racial … [Read more...]
Fighting Rheumatoid Arthritis
Fighting Rheumatoid Arthritis Reported March 30, 2006 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The findings of a new study could offer hope to the more than 2 million Americans with rheumatoid arthritis. Researchers from the Netherlands discuss a new approach to treating RA that appears to show success in … [Read more...]
New Relief for Psoriasis
New Relief for Psoriasis Reported February 8, 2007 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- People who suffer from the distressing skin disease psoriasis may soon have a new treatment option. Researchers report good success for an drug called interleukin-12/23 monoclonal antibody. In a study comparing various doses of … [Read more...]
Stem Cells to Fight Muscle Aging
Stem Cells to Fight Muscle Aging Reported June 17, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A recent study on mice shows stem cells may be able to stop the effects of aging on muscles, which could prevent conditions like muscle atrophy and Parkinsons disease. Adult stem cells in muscles have a receptor called Notch that, when activated, tells them to … [Read more...]
High-dose Steroid use Linked to Heart Disease
Patients who take high doses of steroids are more than twice as likely to have cardiovascular complications than patients who do not, according to a new study. Researchers in the United Kingdom evaluated the health records of 68,781 people who used steroids between 1993 and 1996 and 82,202 people who did not use steroids. The patients were tracked for one to five … [Read more...]
Once-a-month drug to combat the shattering effect of osteoporosis
Once-a-month drug to combat the shattering effect of osteoporosis September 21, 2005 THE blight of osteoporosis, the crippling brittle bone disease that contorts the body and causes fractures from the slightest fall, may be lessened for millions of … [Read more...]
Arthritis Drug Linked to Lymphomas
Arthritis Drug Linked to Lymphomas Reported November 24, 2004 (Ivanhoe Newswire)--A new study helps explain why a drug commonly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and polio increases the risk of lymphoma linked to the Epstein-Barr virus.The authors explain Epstein-Barr is a common virus, present in about 90 percent of the adult population. The virus sets up … [Read more...]
Exercise may help arthritis patients
Exercise may help arthritis patients Reported June 13, 2009 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, who go for supervised exercise programme, might experience beneficial effects on functional status and physical function, reduced need for daily corticosteroid and anti-inflammatory intake and improved levels of depression and anxiety , revealed a new … [Read more...]
Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Genetic Link?
Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Genetic Link? Reported September 06, 2007 ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a debilitating condition affecting between one and two percent of the U.S. population. To date, doctors are not able to predict in whom RA will develop, but researchers have found a link to a genetic mutation in … [Read more...]
Acupuncture for Arthritis
Acupuncture in addition to drug treatment for osteoarthritis of the knee is more effective than drug treatment alone, shows new research out of Spain. Osteoarthritis of the knee is very common, affecting almost one-tenth of the population over age 50. The study authors explain that osteoarthritis is an incurable illness, so treatment is aimed at improving patients' quality of … [Read more...]
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